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The Scottish Government is pleased to announce in the draft budget that we will provide a Bus Infrastructure Fund in 2025-26 focussed on delivering bus priority, supporting infrastructure measures to tackle the negative impact of congestion and local public transport improvements.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 December 2024
This increase has fully met the requests made by local authorities on school meal debt.The 2025/26 budget will deliver a really strong deal for councils that means they can avoid families building up significant debt.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2024
Between 1 October 2023 and end June 2024 we have supported the delivery of 6,774 affordable homes across Scotland of which 933 have been in rural and island areas. 26 of these homes were delivered through the Rural and Islands Housing Fund.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-28906 by Jenni Minto on 26 August 2024, whether it will publish the research that it used to justify the continued use of FAST, rather than BE FAST, in full.
On 17 January, the Scottish Government published a carbon assessment of the Infrastructure Investment Plan for Scotland 2021-22 to 2025-26, drawing on a range of evidence, including results from a taxonomy assessment.
The former Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees met with members from the campaign on 26 March and campaign representatives were subsequently invited to a roundtable discussion with the former First Minister on 17 April.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-26199 by Jenni Minto on 26 March 2024, what criteria a medicine would have to meet in order to be considered for "specialist medicine" designation by the Scottish Government.
The register, administered by Local Energy Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, indicates that 273 developments offered over £26 million worth of community benefits to Scottish communities in the past 12 months.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2024
This is recognised as a priority in our Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) Action Plan 2023-26, and we have allocated multi-year funding to a range of projects in both community and NHS settings that will help to deliver this goal.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2024
Creative Scotland received applications from 361 cultural organisations with a total ask of £96m per year for their Multi Year Funding programme, which will commence from 2025-26. The Scottish Government expect the £96m indicative request figure for the Multi Year Funding Programme to reduce once Creative Scotland has assessed applications and completed ne...